Remote Data Security Engineer: Data Protection & IAM

Southern New Hampshire University; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Data Security Engineer who will implement, operate, and improve security controls across the enterprise data estate, including platforms like Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, and databases such as Azure SQL and SQL Server. The role reports to the Deputy CISO and collaborates with IT teams to protect data across production and non-production environments.

You will design and enforce data protection strategies, manage encryption keys and masking, and

Qualifications

• Experience implementing data protection controls across enterprise data estate.
• Knowledge of encryption, key management, and data masking.
• Understanding of RBAC/ABAC and least-privilege access.
• Experience securing data platforms and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Implements and maintains data protection controls across the enterprise data estate.
• Configures encryption controls for data at rest and in transit.
• Implements least-privilege access models and conducts entitlement reviews.
• Hardens security configurations for Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure SQL, SQL Server, data lakes.
• Embeds security controls into data ingestion, transformation, and pipelines.
• Protects non-production environments with synthetic data and masking standards.
• Automates control deployment and compliance validation.
• Documents guides, runbooks, and supports threat modeling.
• Attendance, punctuality, reliability.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data security

Encryption

Access control

Security automation

Cloud security

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Azure SQL

SQL Server

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Data Security Engineer who will implement, operate, and improve security controls across the enterprise data estate, including platforms like Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, and databases such as Azure SQL and SQL Server. The role reports to the Deputy CISO and collaborates with IT teams to protect data across production and non-production environments.

You will design and enforce data protection strategies, manage encryption keys and masking, and